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PlantVision to supply Preactor production planning and scheduling solutions into Scandinavia

The Preactor Group, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions for over 18 years, today announced details of a strategic partnership with leading Swedish technology consultancy PlantVision.

The agreement will see Preactor’s proven family of production planning and scheduling solutions offered to the Scandinavian market as part of PlantVision’s comprehensive solution portfolio. Headquartered in Kista (Stockholm), PlantVision has over 50 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 60 million Swedish Kronor. It also offers Scandinavia’s widest range of solutions for operational improvement and in the last 15 years has delivered over 200 major projects around the world.

Magnus Severin is PlantVision’s CEO and comments on the benefits this partnership will bring:

“Preactor proven capabilities will help existing and future customers in achieving operational excellence by reducing lead times and inventory levels, while at the same time increasing productivity.” He continues, “As a company, Preactor has a very deep knowledge and understanding of planning and scheduling, which has been transferred into its software. The Preactor solution is therefore easy to install and configure enabling it to quickly and powerfully contribute to the customers' existing business processes .This helps deliver a very fast Return on Investment, which is important in today's challenging financial and competitive business climate."

Mike Novels, Preactor CEO, is equally positive about the partnership:

“We pride ourselves on working with partners that value and demonstrate the depth of industry experience that has helped make us the leading independent provider of production planning and scheduling systems. PlantVision has a proven track record of working with a broad range of companies across many industries with a view to increasing their efficiency. Preactor will help them to do this to an even greater extent and we are a confident of a long and successful relationship.”